Make Cigarettes Less Harmful.

It is amazing that someone didn’t think of it sooner but requiring the cigarette manufacturers to eliminate all chemical additives to produce a pure tobacco product will solve some of the problems with cigarettes.  The additive that makes the cigarettes burn faster to the end can be eliminated to keep people from incinerating themselves from a lit cigarette.  This eliminates the need to add anti-burn rings, another additive.

The additive to make people more addicted can be eliminated too.  Let the manufacturers yelp but we all know it is a bad additive. Congress can do that legally to show the voting public that they aren’t entirely corrupt by tobacco money. (The money is a billion dollar industry and Congress has problems with that much money in an industry.  Tobacco farmers are a large lobby; what do we do with the growers if tobacco wasn’t grown: what subsidies will they require if they are forced out of business? Issues like that are real because it really is complicated. (We suggest they grow food on that land.  Soybeans is a good replacement crop says this farmer’s daughter, to rebuild the land up.)

The FDA won’t act as they have demonstrated, but all these anti-cigarette lobbies can make real headway much easier if they band together and force the legislation through Congress to ban the chemicals that make cigarettes a worse killer than terrorists.  

Pharmaceutical companies need to be sharply curtailed from making drugs that cause terrible, harmful side effects.  Lately the side effects are worse than the diseases they theoretically treat. And the efficacy of benefit from a drug needs to be sharply watched for rip-offs.  They need to be sued if they make a bad drug.  
A notable AIDS drug worked a short time, then let the T-cell count drop like a stone, and for $700 a month people ought to expect better. It will be expensive but doctors can now use mutated genes to cure HIV through transplanting the genes into the patient. A doctor in Berlin, Germany, discovered this recently.

Next, We the People need to band together and get High Fructose Corn Syrup banned from our foods.  This non-sugar is processed through the liver and makes a copper deficiency that is detrimental to all who eat it.  It contributes mightily to the problem of obesity in America by creating food cravings that are unnatural because the body is craving nutrition that is lacking in the artificial food made from corn.  Let the government balance trade agreements with the Japanese some other way and not with HFCS added to our foods. Kellogg’s special K advertises that eating their cereal will help people weigh less if they replace meals with the cereal but the HFS will add food cravings to make people eat more, not less.  Sodas need to be free of this additive since our children are drinking it by the gallon across America and growing smaller, inferior vital organs, including testes,  as a result.

Trans fats block the cells receptors that are needed to take on constructive oils in the body. They need to go.  The lies told about them go unheaded, it seems. Truth in advertising would help, but we see that such laws are selectively enforced.

Sodium Lauryl Sulfate makes people’s hair thin out. The makers of hair restoring treatments are jumping with joy that SLS is in everything from hand creams to toothpaste, and shampoos especially.  Didn’t anyone ever wonder why women are going bald at an early age?  That’s not normal.

Artificial sugars are bad chemicals, if not an additive in its pure (?) form.  Saccharin is safe in normal usage for diabetics and dieters, but not the made-from-sugar fake sweetener that short circuits the short term memory.  Be thinner but terminally stupid. Some choice.

Artificial dyes that are allergens need to be reviewed; Salt and sugar contents can be reduced in many foods for the public benefit. We citizens did a tolerable job of eliminating MSG, now onward to replace or eliminate other poisons in our foods.

And Oxyclean is a bunk product; ask anyone who has used it. Frauds need to be called on the carpet for their thefts of public money.

Meats should be grown as close to organically as possible.  This measure alone will produce a better grade of product for consumption and cheaper for the farmer who doesn’t need to pay for the DES and other additives.  Treat an animal with antibiotics if it shows signs of sickness, not as a matter of course.

Only aware consumers who vote, make noisy objections and write to Congress will make these changes. Let’s get to it. * * *